Today the whole group went on a walking tour of Warsaw. Our tour guide was the old man named George (but say with thick Polish accent) and he was spunky. We first went to the garden right by our hotel that is 200 squared km. The park has the Belveder Palace and an old summer house among other things. In the summer or boat house is where Louis XVIII stayed during the French Revolution. We went on the roof garden at the new university library and it had an amazing panorama of the city. After that we went over to the university. It is gorgeous with huge buildings that remind of southern mansions (yellow terracotta). We next saw the palace where the round table talks were held before the fall of the wall and the end of communism. We went by this beautiful church and Jorj (our guide) wanted to take us inside so we followed. He went to walk through the sanctuary and a wedding was about to start; this did not stop him and he kept going! Half of us didn't follow him because as we started to walk in the organ started to play! HA! We also walked in the back of another church with another wedding, so we crashed two weddings total. They were both very pretty. Every church seemed to have a wedding on this Saturday.
The churches were in old towne which is gorgeous. It was almost totally destroyed during WWII. You can't even really tell, amazingly. After the tour was over we stayed in old towne and walked around and got ice cream. We went back to the place where we had gotten pizza before to get dinner and then called it a night after being on our feet for 8 hours.
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